Transverse City Lyrics - Zevon Warren

written by Stefan Arngrim & Warren Zevon 1989 

Dark Victory Twins BMI/Zevon Music Inc. BMI 

Told my little Pollyanna 

There's a place for you and me 

We'll go down to Transverse City 

Life is cheap and Death is free 

Past the condensation silos 

Past the all-night trauma stand 

We'll be there before tomorrow 

Pollyanna take my hand 

Show us endless neon vistas 

Castles made of laser lights 

Take us to the shopping sector 

In the vortex of the night 

Past the shiny mylar towers 

Past the ravaged tenements 

To a place we can't remember 

For a time we won't forget 

Here's the hum of desperation 

Heres the test tube mating call 

Here's the latest carbon cycle 

Here's the clergy of the mall 

Here's the song of shear and torsion 

Here's the bloodbath magazine 

Here's the harvest of contusions 

Here's the narcoleptic dream 

Told my little Pollyanna 

Here's a place where we can stay 

We have come to see tomorrow 

We have given up today 

Down among the dancing quanta 

Everything exists at once 

Up above in Transverse City 

Every weekend lasts for months 

Here's the hum of desperation 

Heres the test tube mating call 

Here's the latest carbon cycle 

Here's the clergy of the mall 

Here's the witness and the victim 

Here's the relatives' remains 

Here's the well-known double helix 

Here's the poisoned waves of grain 

Here's the song of shear and torsion 

Here's the bloodbath magazine 

Here's the harvest of contusions 

Here's the narcoleptic dream 

Here's the hum of desperation